Companion (2025) Plus/Minus Review

Rebecca offers up a comprehensive write-up of the 2025 science-fiction hit ‘Companion’ in a new format we’re calling ‘Plus/Minus’.

Spoilers ahead.

100 Words or Less – Dead Birds (2004)

A review of the 2004 horror-western ‘Dead Birds’ in 100 words or less.

Inside No. 9 – The Top Nine Episodes

Over 49 episodes, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton have made the definitive anthology show. One episode might be the scariest thing you’ve ever seen, the next might be kitchen sink drama, and the next might see a flatulent and German Steve Pemberton evacuating his bowels into a shoebox. Which makes ranking them difficult.

The X-Files (Seasons 1-4) The 5 Best Episodes

The X-Files is one of most daring and unashamedly insane shows on mainstream TV of the last 50 years. I started watching it months ago and I am slowly but surely making my way through the entire thing.

So, as I finish the very excellent season 4, I thought I would take a look at what I think are the 5 best episodes (so far).

All V/H/S Segments Ranked – Worst to Best

The V/H/S franchise combines two mainstays of the horror genre: found footage and the anthology format. The hook here is that every grainy segment is written and directed by different people – often the biggest names in horror.

And it’s a wild ride, with each film offering a mix of scares and gore.

The ‘Final Destination’ Franchise – Worst to Best

Like the ‘Saw’ franchise, from 2000 to 2011, Final Destination became a cinematic tradition. Released every few years, the series hooked audiences in with the promise of ridiculously gory and over-the-top deaths. But it did this with a surprisingly consistent approach, establishing and updating it’s strict set of in-world rules and building a impressively rich mythos. And also someone gets their guts pulled out of their arsehole.

We Just Watched… The Lure (Córki Dancingu) (2015)

This 2015 horror/fantasy/musical is bizarre in a way not many other films can quite achieve. Following the tragic tale of two aquatic sisters through the dancing clubs of the 1980s, things very quickly take a turn for the gruesome.

BEYOND: TWO SOULS PC (2019) REVIEW

Does Quantic Dream’s follow-up to Heavy Rain improve upon the narrative driven formula?

With two Hollywood actors involved this time around it must be an improvement right?

Heavy Rain PC (2019) Review

The critically acclaimed PS3 mystery thriller has finally made it to PC… Does it still hold up?

Top 9 Moments From E3 2019

Game Reveals? Awkward and forced enthusiasm? Todd Howard?

It must be E3 2019!